Quoted from Royale-W-Cheese:Save almost 2 weeks to east coast. No canal needed and cheaper.
For sure, my only experience is shipping container pins to Seattle from Italy, I'd think based on watching our boats do their trek that it would be a week less. The longest part of the journey is getting to the Atlantic, the ships usually spend a few weeks stopping to load and unload at ports before they head accross the ocean. If you have the container info, it's fun to watch them on ship tracking websites.